-to name a fewNote: Please call me and we can discuss your wishes and decide on the most fun and elegant place/venue for your elopement!

2. Elopement “Guest List”

As you decide what to do, it’s all about the “guest list” and what you want. Do you desire two witnesses, a few family and friends or perhaps a group of 20? There is no right way or wrong way to have a wedding ceremony ~ this is all about the two of you and what you want and desire for your ceremony moment.

3. Sweet and Easy “Vendors” For Your Elopement

I know and work with some of the best and affordable “vendors” in the Pacific Northwest. Whether you need a wonderful photographer, a simple bouquet, a few cupcakes or cake, fun outfits or a great venue for an overnight stay, please go to Preferred Vendors for more info.

5. Oh, yes! Your Vows!

You decide. Sweet and simple. In the form of a love letter. Long and robust. Above all, let your vows be heartfelt, real, sincere, real and most of all, memorable.

6. Your Reason(s) To Elope Is Personal And Is To Be Respected

Some couples who elope say they want to save money. The cost of an elopement is most often considerably less than the cost of a more traditional wedding.
Couples also share with me that they don’t want to deal with months of wedding planning and all of the choices and decisions that come with a “wedding day.”
Whatever the situation, your decision to “elope” is personal. There is no “right” or “wrong” here – it’s all about what is right for you.

7. Fabulous Restaurants For A Celebration Meal

There are so many fabulous restaurants in Seattle, Tacoma and the Pacific
Northwest for a celebration meal. Okay, I’ll “dish” my personal favorites:

Palisade Restaurant

Salty’s on Alki (bring on the brunch)

Canlis

Tilth

Seastar

Metropolitan Grill

The Space Needle

-ask for my full list of favorites!
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And here you are, loving each other, and with the enormous intention and challenge to be married, to get married, during Covid 19.

So, here’s the deal on how to do this, short and sweet, for you, in Washington State.

I am writing this UPDATE POST on May 14th, and we’re in the middle of Phase 1.

As a State, we need to get to Phase 2 in order to have a gathering of 5 people or less, which allows for a small and intimate wedding ceremony, with social distancing measures. At least, this is what I am interpreting, with others in our wedding community, from the Governor’s Covid 19 directives.

In a perfect world, Phase 2 will commence on June 1st. Of course, the State may push this date back, depending on our numbers.

If you are planning a small ceremony for June, please consider securing a valid Washington State Marriage License NOW. You are within the 60 day application window, and because Offices are not open to in-person visits, it takes extra time to get your marriage license documents, via on-line and snail mail.

For all of this you will need a valid Washington State Marriage License, 2 witnesses over the age of 18, a location/venue for your ceremony and someone lovely to marry you (hopefully me).

So, how do you get married during Covid 19, if you live in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Snohomish, any part of the Puget Sound or Washington State?

You don’t.

Under the Governor’s order in Washington State, ‘no weddings’ right now.

Yes, the Marriage License offices are issuing marriage licenses and they are recording them. This is what they do.

The best guidance on what is allowed during the State’s shelter-in-place order (from the Governor’s Office and King County Executive’s office) is no weddings.

So, if the two of you desire to get all hitched up, and you live anywhere in Washington State, or want to travel here to do so, what do you do?

You wait until May 4th for updated guidance, when the Governor hopefully lifts the ‘no wedding order.’ My hope is that this ‘no wedding’ restriction will be lifted, allowing a roll-out of small weddings (5 people: Officiant, Couple and 2 Witnesses).

And with this, if you don’t yet have a valid Washington State Marriage License, you can secure one from any County. The offices aren’t open right now, so you have to do everything the old fashioned way.

If you have questions, if I can be helpful. I am here. Once the stay-at-home order is lifted, I am fully available to officiate for you…